25th
Fusion IO
Performance-based storage. Today, it takes 600 disk drives to keep a server “fed” and it all about keeping the performance up.
They’re showing the hardware, in the form of a PCI express cards — can do 100,00 iops, 600-some GB of storage.
They are demoing in an HP blade. They just moved 8 DVD’s worth of data at 400MB/second, so this is about 1,000x faster than typical. Silicon- based, but it all on one piece, as opposed to buying 1,000 mechanical drives, as well as all the who-do that goes along with it to make them all work together. Sweet.

